Martha Feldman

Martha Feldman is a specialist in vocal musics from 1500 to the present. She has published City Culture and the Madrigal at Venice (University of Chicago Press, 1995), Opera and Sovereignty: Transforming Myths in 18th-Century Italy (University of Chicago Press, 2007), and The Castrato: Reflections on Natures and Kinds (University of California Press, 2015), and co-edited with Bonnie Gordon The Courtesan’s Arts (Oxford University  Press, 2006) and with Judith T. Zeitlin The Voice as Something More: Essays toward Materiality (University of Chicago Press, 2019). Recently, Feldman has been working on the entanglements of voice with music historiography, race, and alterity and is writing a book called The Castrato Phantom: Moreschi, Fellini, and the Sacred Vernacular in Rome. She is the Ferdinand Schevill Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Music and Theater and Performance Studies and the College at the University of Chicago.